Post by the Scribe on Mar 10, 2020 11:50:05 GMT
GOP TALKING POINT: HILLARY CLINTON GAVE 20% OF UNITED STATES' URANIUM TO RUSSIA IN EXCHANGE FOR CLINTON FOUNDATION DONATIONS
Justice Department Effectively Ends Clinton Investigation After Finding Nothing: Report
Sanjana Karanth www.yahoo.com/news/justice-department-clinton-investigation-finds-nothing-042626189.html
HuffPost January 9, 2020, 9:26 PM MST
Justice Department Effectively Ends Clinton Investigation After Finding Nothing: Report
A Department of Justice inquiry into Hillary Clinton that began after conservatives demanded more investigations into the former Democratic presidential candidate is reportedly ending with no actual results.
Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed U.S. Attorney John Huber in 2018 to look into concerns raised by President Donald Trump and his Republican allies that the FBI did not properly look into Clinton’s involvement in a uranium deal while she was secretary of state in the Obama administration.
Huber allegedly reviewed documents and spoke with federal law enforcement officials in Arkansas who were handling an investigation into the Clinton Foundation. Though the inquiry has not formally ended and no official notice has been sent to the Justice Department or to Congress, Huber has effectively finished his assignment and found nothing worth pursuing, current and former officials told The Washington Post in a report published Thursday. HuffPost has not been able to independently confirm that the inquiry has ended. www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-winds-down-clinton-related-inquiry-once-championed-by-trump-it-found-nothing-of-consequence/2020/01/09/ca83932e-32f9-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html
Canadian mining company Uranium One, which had major U.S. holdings, was sold in 2010 to a Russian firm while Clinton was secretary of state. The sale required approval from nine U.S. agencies, including the State Department, before it could proceed. Conservative media and critics of the 2016 Democratic nominee have falsely claimed that the sale was a quid pro quo for donations to the nonprofit Clinton Foundation. www.huffpost.com/entry/joy-reid-clinton-uranium-one-trump_n_59f672f9e4b03cd20b827261
The State Department did not have the power to unilaterally approve or reject the sale, and Clinton was not actually directly involved in the approval process. The original FBI investigation into whether Clinton had ties to the deal found no evidence of wrongdoing, but Sessions revived the inquiry in late 2017 after facing pressure from Trump.
Huber’s effective conclusion of his review is likely to anger many Republicans who hoped the top prosecutor from Utah would validate their long-held conspiracy theories about Clinton.
Attorney General William Barr, a Trump nominee who succeeded Sessions, has previously supported the president’s call to investigate Clinton and has questioned the need for Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. A spokesperson for the Justice Department did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment. www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-barr-attorney-general-trump-doj_n_5c09650be4b04046345a1c2e www.huffpost.com/entry/william-barr-mueller-report-trump-spying_n_5cadf6b8e4b01bf96008c0f7
But Trump has largely shifted his focus away from Huber’s investigation and toward U.S. Attorney John Durham’s review of the origins of the Russia investigation, which concluded with a report that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election in order to help Trump win. Barr appointed Durham to the review last year, though he allegedly sees no evidence so far that the Russia probe was a setup by intelligence officials, as Trump claims. www.huffpost.com/entry/mueller-report-explained-release-trump_n_5cb8d895e4b068d795ca7c0d www.huffpost.com/entry/william-barr-prosecutor-russia-probe_n_5cda5eb6e4b0615b08181d41 www.huffpost.com/entry/prosecutor-no-evidence-russia-probe-setup_n_5de85130e4b0913e6f8aad1f www.washingtonpost.com/politics/investigate-the-investigators-is-new-trump-rallying-cry-to-counter-mueller-report/2019/05/04/9319b520-6db6-11e9-be3a-33217240a539_story.html?noredirect=on
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Justice Department Effectively Ends Clinton Investigation After Finding Nothing: Report
Sanjana Karanth www.yahoo.com/news/justice-department-clinton-investigation-finds-nothing-042626189.html
HuffPost January 9, 2020, 9:26 PM MST
Justice Department Effectively Ends Clinton Investigation After Finding Nothing: Report
A Department of Justice inquiry into Hillary Clinton that began after conservatives demanded more investigations into the former Democratic presidential candidate is reportedly ending with no actual results.
Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed U.S. Attorney John Huber in 2018 to look into concerns raised by President Donald Trump and his Republican allies that the FBI did not properly look into Clinton’s involvement in a uranium deal while she was secretary of state in the Obama administration.
Huber allegedly reviewed documents and spoke with federal law enforcement officials in Arkansas who were handling an investigation into the Clinton Foundation. Though the inquiry has not formally ended and no official notice has been sent to the Justice Department or to Congress, Huber has effectively finished his assignment and found nothing worth pursuing, current and former officials told The Washington Post in a report published Thursday. HuffPost has not been able to independently confirm that the inquiry has ended. www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-winds-down-clinton-related-inquiry-once-championed-by-trump-it-found-nothing-of-consequence/2020/01/09/ca83932e-32f9-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html
Canadian mining company Uranium One, which had major U.S. holdings, was sold in 2010 to a Russian firm while Clinton was secretary of state. The sale required approval from nine U.S. agencies, including the State Department, before it could proceed. Conservative media and critics of the 2016 Democratic nominee have falsely claimed that the sale was a quid pro quo for donations to the nonprofit Clinton Foundation. www.huffpost.com/entry/joy-reid-clinton-uranium-one-trump_n_59f672f9e4b03cd20b827261
The State Department did not have the power to unilaterally approve or reject the sale, and Clinton was not actually directly involved in the approval process. The original FBI investigation into whether Clinton had ties to the deal found no evidence of wrongdoing, but Sessions revived the inquiry in late 2017 after facing pressure from Trump.
Huber’s effective conclusion of his review is likely to anger many Republicans who hoped the top prosecutor from Utah would validate their long-held conspiracy theories about Clinton.
Attorney General William Barr, a Trump nominee who succeeded Sessions, has previously supported the president’s call to investigate Clinton and has questioned the need for Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. A spokesperson for the Justice Department did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment. www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-barr-attorney-general-trump-doj_n_5c09650be4b04046345a1c2e www.huffpost.com/entry/william-barr-mueller-report-trump-spying_n_5cadf6b8e4b01bf96008c0f7
But Trump has largely shifted his focus away from Huber’s investigation and toward U.S. Attorney John Durham’s review of the origins of the Russia investigation, which concluded with a report that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election in order to help Trump win. Barr appointed Durham to the review last year, though he allegedly sees no evidence so far that the Russia probe was a setup by intelligence officials, as Trump claims. www.huffpost.com/entry/mueller-report-explained-release-trump_n_5cb8d895e4b068d795ca7c0d www.huffpost.com/entry/william-barr-prosecutor-russia-probe_n_5cda5eb6e4b0615b08181d41 www.huffpost.com/entry/prosecutor-no-evidence-russia-probe-setup_n_5de85130e4b0913e6f8aad1f www.washingtonpost.com/politics/investigate-the-investigators-is-new-trump-rallying-cry-to-counter-mueller-report/2019/05/04/9319b520-6db6-11e9-be3a-33217240a539_story.html?noredirect=on
This won't satisfy Trump, Barr, and others in the GOP. They will just call for another Hillary Clinton investigation soon spending millions more of tax payers dollars. They have been investigating Hillary and Bill Clinton for decades and have come up with nothing.
Since 1969, Republican presidential administrations have 121 criminal indictments and 89 convictions, while Democrats have had 3 and 1 respectively.
as you can see, its a much better expenditure of DOJ dollars to investigate republicans. mueller paid for his investigations with the fines he gathered alone.
as you can see, its a much better expenditure of DOJ dollars to investigate republicans. mueller paid for his investigations with the fines he gathered alone.
A federal court approved a $25 million settlement on Tuesday with Americans who said they were duped by Donald Trump and his now-defunct Trump University, which promised to teach them the "secrets of success" in the real estate industry. Instead they were pressured to purchase more and more classes taught by con men who knew little about real estate. Some were nothing more than used car salesmen. Trump was sued and found guilty in a lawsuit originally filed in June 2018, accusing Trump and his three eldest children of using the Donald J. Trump Foundation to advance his self-interests and boost his presidential campaign, in part by allowing Trump's campaign staff to orchestrate and run a televised fundraiser for veterans' organizations in Iowa in 2016. No money was paid to the veteran's organizations until the news media exposed the scam. Trump also used Trump Foundation money to purchase oil paintings of himself to hang in his golf clubs.
So, a two-year TRUMP Justice Department investigation into the Clintons, instigated at TRUMP's insistence, looking into all the conspiracy theories about the Clinton Foundation, the uranium deal, etc ... um ... still has found no wrong-doing the Hillary Clinton. You know, just like every other Republican-led investigation into every Clinton-related conspiracy theory.
You can bet the TRUMP Justice Dept. will be releasing those findings as quietly as possible, in the middle of the night, so none of his supporters actually hear about it.
You can bet the TRUMP Justice Dept. will be releasing those findings as quietly as possible, in the middle of the night, so none of his supporters actually hear about it.
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